Prosodic Syntax in Chinese: History and Changes

ISBN-13: 9780367728991 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 252 str.

Feng Shengli

Opis

The author has first introduced the relevant theories and concepts of Metrical Phonology, Prosodic Phonology and Formal Syntax and formulated the Government-based Nuclear Stress Rule in Chinese which can explain how and why Mandarin Chinese sentences are structured in a particular way.

Spis treści

List of tables

List of abbreviations

Preface

Chapter 1 Word Order Change and Stress Shift

Chapter 2 Prosodic Structure and the Origin of bei Constructions

Chapter 3 Prosodic Structure and the Birth of ba Constructions

Chapter 4 Prosodically Constrained Localizers in Classical and Modern Chinese

Postscript to the Chinese Edition

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Feng Shengli is Professor of Chinese Linguistics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include prosodic syntax, poetic prosody, historical syntax and exegesis.